Good product lines. Brand recognition. Sizable company. Some potential for movement within the company (but getting less as Solo people fill them). Good health benefits when most companies are tightening budgets. Decent retirement plan.

Cons

Since the Solo acquisition, it's become hostile and doesn't follow the core culture. People from the acquisition are unnecessarily desperate to save their jobs and manipulate the trusting nature of existing management with ideas or concepts that are not in the best long term interest of the company. Many of these legacy people have an attitude that Dart has money to waste so they push wasteful spending.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

You got a decent fire sale of your competitor. Don't dilute your management structure with the people, they are the same culture that pushed their company to bleed the books red.

Financially strong company able to infuse cash into product improvement and process improvement

Cons

Does not seem to infuse money into their employees; lower salaries; minimal perks

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Management needs to step back and ask advice from those who have experience in integration of systems and integration of companies. Your way is not the only way and there are intelligent employees within reach that can make your day-to-day much easier if you just utilize the resource.